THE FIRST GREEK BOOK BY JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE, PH.D, LL.D., LITT.D. Professor Of Ancient Greek At Harvard University This Revision Copyright ©2012 by Shawn Irwin
Introduction - This web project I created from the First Greek Book, however, there are some changes that I took the liberty to make, for example, I have added color to allow the reader to see the grammar much more easily. Another modification that you will see in the text, is in the grammar charts. For the second person plural, instead of using the formal, proper "you", I have used the word "yous", which is common usage in certain areas of the United States, but considered not proper, as far as grammar goes . . . but the huge advantage of using it is that it allows us to easily distinguish between the second person singular by using "you", and the second person plural, by using "yous". You may also notice the trema (~) being referred to as a "circumflex", the font provides no circumflex, and in writing the Greek, simply replace the trema with a circumflex. The answers provided may not all be perfect, as I am no great scholar of Ancient Greek, and they only go to a point around chapter twenty. Alas, it seems I have spent more time creating this (approximately 2500+ hours) than I have studying it!
Lesson I - The Alphabet. Vowels, Consonants, Dipthongs
Lesson II - Breathings, Syllables, Elision, Accent, Punctuation
Lesson III - Nouns . . . Introductory
Lesson IV - A-declension - feminines in η
Lesson V - Verbs . . . Introductory
Lesson VI - A-Declension . . . Feminines in α
Lesson VII - Imperfect Indicative Active
Lesson IX - O-Declension (continued)
Lesson X - Future and First Aorist Indicative Active
Lesson XI - A-Declension . . . Masculines
Lesson XII - Perfect and Pluperfect Indicative Active
Lesson XIII - The Art Of Reading
Lesson XIV - Adjectives of the Vowel Declension
Lesson XV - Analysis of the Primary Tenses of the Indicative Active
Lesson XVI - Analysis of the Secondary Tenses of the Indicative Active
Lesson XVII - Demonstrative Pronouns - αὐτός
Lesson XVIII - Present and Imperfect Indicative of εἰμι, be
Lesson XIX - Present, Imperfect, and Future Indicative Middle
Lesson XX - Aorist, Perfect, Pluperfect and Future Perfect Indicative Middle
Lesson XXI - Indicative Passive
Lesson XXIII - Perfect, Pluperfect Indicative Middle and Passive of Palatal and Lingual Mute Verbs
Lesson XXV - Labial and Palatal Mute Stems of the Consonant Declension
Lesson XXVI - Lingual Mute Stems of the Consonant Declension
Lesson XXVII - Adjectives of the Consonant Declension
Lesson XXVIII - Contract Verbs in αω in the Indicative
Lesson XXIX - Contract Verbs in εω and οω in the Indicative
Lesson XXX - Contract Nouns and Adjectives of the Vowel Declension
Lesson XXXI - Deponent verbs, Conditional Sentences
Lesson XXXII - Subjunctive Active, Vivid Future Conditions
Lesson XXXIII - Subjunctive Action (continued) Subjunctive in Exhortations and in Final Cases
Lesson XXXIV - Subjunctive Middle and Passive, Subjunctive after Verbs of Fearing
Lesson XXXV - Contract Verbs in the Subjunctive
Lesson XXXVI - Liquid Stems of the Consonant Declension
Lesson XXXVII - Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns
XXXVIII - Optative Active. Less Vivid Future Conditions
Lesson XXXIX - Optative Active (continued). Optative in Final Clauses, Object Clauses
Lesson XL - Optative Middle and Passive. Optative after Verbs of Fearing
Lesson XLI - Contract Verbs in the Optative
Lesson XLII - Stems in σ of the Consonant Declension
Lesson XLIII - Imperative Active
Lesson XLIV - Imperative Middle and Passive
Lesson XLV - Contract Verbs in the Imperative
Lesson XLVI - Adjective Stems in ψ and εσ of the Consonant Declension
Lesson XLVII - Personal Pronouns
Lesson XLVIII - Reflexive, Reciprocal, and Possessive Pronouns
Lesson L - The Infinitive (continued)
Lesson LI - Stems in ι and υ of the Consonant Declension
Lesson LII - Participles Active
Lesson LIII - Participles Middle and Passive
Lesson LIV - Adjective Stems in υ of the Consonant Declension, Irregular Adjectives
Lesson LV - Stems in a Diphthong of the Consonant Declension
Lesson LVI - Relative Pronouns. Genitive Absolute. Numerals
Lesson LVII - Conditional Sentences, General Suppositions
Lesson LVIII - Conditional Relative Sentences
Lesson LIX - Comparison of Adjectives
Lesson LX - Present System of Verbs, Indirect Discourse
Lesson LXI - Future and First Aorist Systems of Vowel and Mute Verbs, Indirect Discourse
Lesson LXII - Irregular Comparison of Adjectives
Lesson LXIV - Formation and Comparison of Adverbs
Lesson LXV - Second Aorist System. Indirect Discourse
Lesson LXVII - First Perfect System, Indirect Discourse
Lesson LXVIII - Second Perfect System
Lesson LXIX - Perfect Middle System of Vowel and of Mute Verbs
Lesson LXX - Perfect Middle System of Liquid Verbs
Lesson LXXI - First Passive System. Complex Sentences in Indirect Discourse
Lesson LXXII - Second Passive System
Lesson LXXIII - Verbal Adjectives
Lesson LXXIV - Regular Verbs in μι, τίθημι
Lesson LXXV - Regular Verbs in ΜΙ, δίδωμι
Lesson LXXVI - Regular Verbs in ΜΙ, ἵστημι
Lesson LXXVII - Regular Verbs in ΜΙ, δείκνῡμι
Lesson LXXVIII - Second Perfect System without Tense Suffix
Lesson LXXIX - Irregular Verbs in ΜΙ, φημι, εἰμι, εἰμι
Lesson LXXX - Irregular Verbs in MI (continued), ἵημι,κεῖμαι, ἧμαι
LXXXII - Rules of Syntax. Sections 800-870
LXXXIV - Vocabulary Abbreviations Guide
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